I’m excited to announce that Anthony DeBarros is joining DocumentCloud this week. We’ve known Tony for a long time as a DocumentCloud user at Gannett Digital and USA TODAY, where he’s led technology projects and data-driven stories and interactives. Tony will be joining me to lead and manage DocumentCloud’s product efforts as our platform and team grows.

Thanks to a grant from the Knight Foundation, we’re looking forward to expanding and improving our platform. We’d like to find new ways to help journalists with reporting, research and publishing on deadline.The grant also is designed to give us the footing we need to guarantee DocumentClould’s long-term sustainability, so that journalists can continue to rely on the platform into the future, and Tony is going to be an important part of that process.